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"And how could she go on living between two worlds, one she knew and understood but could no longer be in, and another that she was in but was not permitted to know? Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home...
"We were probably doomed from the moment the virus hit the airport. Several years after a global meltdown, New Zealand, along with the rest of the world, is still in chaos. No electricity, no bradband, and people are in survival mode - at least until...
"Hugely acclaimed during her lifetime, writer Edith Wharton is back - with the most extraordinary opportunity. Summoned to a room in the afterlife, Edith finds the manuscript of a new novella inspired by her life. A letter from her one-time editor ad...
eBook
"Roza Hallwright leads a quiet, orderly life, working at her publishing job each day, returning home to the large, comfortable house she shares with her politician husband David and her two stepchildren. But this peaceful existence is about to be cha...
"Ten years after his father's disappearance, Gordo Jenkins is on the brink of turning his life around. He's about to finish college and pursue his filmmaking dream, and he's fallen in love with Eleanor after a chance encounter in a New York City clinic....
Matilda Chapple is dependent on the charity of unloving relatives. Determined to earn her financial independence, she writes a series of erotic stories, purporting to be the confessions of a courtesan. Her secret is safe - until a battle-scarred Wate...
James Hargrave, Earl of Arden, urgently needs a wife. He's resigned himself to a marriage of convenience and has even chosen a bride: Kate Honeycourt, his best friend's sister. Kate has been on the shelf for years. Why, then, does she so firmly turn him...
"Sharon is a young widow struggling to cope with a drug addict son. And then, into her life comes a gift, her granddaughter, precious and needing Sharon's help. Can Sharon provide the environment Mia needs? Especially since she's hiding a secret - she...
Haru is a single dad, a widower, doing his best to balance his career and raising his little girl, Minako. Thankfully Fairyland theme park is a haven for both of them. However, when both a prince and a pirate start courting Haru, his balancing act gets...
"The recipe is simple: Charlie cooks an amazing meal, Charlie impresses heir to the theme park Max Jones, Charlie gets a promotion and a dash of control over his kitchen. But the perfect recipe becomes unpalatable with one wrong ingredient and Max Jones...
"Jacob Esera, star rugby player and young single father, has worked hard to create a joyous life for his six-year-old daughter. After the death of his childhood sweetheart soon after their daughter's birth, all Jake wants is safety and stability. No risks....
Mystery thriller which challenges us all to think in more detail about our ancestors, and perhaps revisit assumptions that have grown into accepted facts over time. Cracking a code is the fundamental achievement of two young boys and leads to opportunities...
West End actress Freddy Carlton takes on an Austen-inspired play, a scandal at a country estate, an enthusiastic search for a passion outside of acting...and the (some people might say icy*) heart of London's most feared theater critic.*if those people...
"A fictionalised account of Captain James Cook's early life, 'The Secret Life of James Cook' depicts, in imaginative form, Cook's early life and ambitions, his naval career in Canada and beyond, and his marriage to Elizabeth and their family life"--P...
eAudiobook
As Bob Jones writes in Degrees for everyone, we have entered an age in which commercialism has replaced professionalism, and never more so than with our universities. A university degree once held mana; today it is but a badge of attendance. Scholarship...
From a tiny snowbound village, five men and women begin a dangerous quest to challenge darkness, fulfill a prophecy and change the course of their world's history. For 2000 years, Kannwar, the Immortal Destroyer, Lord of Bhrudwo, has been planning revenge...
April Ritchie has a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Take the night she was born ... When bad girl April Ritchie returns home to Pisa after a nine-year absence, not too many of the townsfolk are glad to see her back. April's s...
"A standard exhumation becomes anything but for private investigator Theodore Tate when bodies begin bubbling to the surface of the cemetery lake. Tate knows he has to let his former colleagues in the police deal with it. But when the coffin is opened...
"Dan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars in which the nation has been engaged. The General and the Nightingale brings together Davin's 20 war stories loosely based on...
"When Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard. But Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignored and start to permeate his family's world. In a Fishbone Church tells the story of three gen...
"1830s Sydney Town - with its bar brawls, blackmail, friendship, romance, tattoos, gin and much more - is brought vividly to life as fiesty prostitute Friday, naive seamstress Harrie and cunning thief Sarah try to make their way as transported convict...
"It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy...
"Is Rachel Robinson the only one on campus who doesn't know who Devin Freedman is? No big deal except that the bad-boy rock star gets a kick out of Rachel's refusal to worship at his feet. And that seems to have provoked his undivided attention. Devin,...
A man lay dead: Ngaio Marsh's classic first novel, which introduced Inspector Alleyn and set Ngaio Marsh on the path to international recognition. Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house-parties are deservedly famous. To amuse...
Meet Piper and West... She vowed never to return. To save her brother from financial ruin, Piper Harland must do the one thing she swore she'd never do-return to the tiny island hometown where Ryan "West" Westlake crushed her heart. Piper is tough, r...
He's the police inspector who failed to stop a murder, and he can't forget it.The worst mass murder in New Zealand history. In 1866, five men were murdered on the Maungatapu Track near Nelson, New Zealand by a merciless gang of ex-convicts from the g...
"A young mother in shocked contemplation of her new baby and young women in rehab and jail feature in mostly short and oblique stories which echo and connect with cumulative power. A broad range of other characters, including a NZ serviceman returned...
"Acclaimed literary biographer Elizabeth Winston writes about long-dead heroes. So bad-boy rock icon Zander Freedman couldn't possibly tempt her to write his memoir. Except the man is a mass of fascinating contradictions - manipulative, honest, gifte...
I've never been what I was supposed to be. Wealthy sons of Port Governors aren't supposed to be ejected from the British Navy after less than a year, they're not supposed to like pulp romances or daydream about the handsome heroes of the stories instead...
"Life journey has dealt Sue a very bad hand. It is one bad hand after another, It was a whirlwind of ups and downs. More downs than ups. Life sucks: Racism, kidnapping, pedophile, cancer, drowning, street kids, police high speed pursuit, death, uplif...
"Friday 13 March, 2015: Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Pam makes landfall with devastating consequences. Vanuatu is bruised but not broken. Reeling from the loss of livelihood and struggling to meet basic human needs, people start to reassemble their li...
The feast of stories is varied - urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary. In Busy Lines, an elderly woman, whose husband has died, gathers firewood on the beach while the appliances in her house fall to bits one by one. In Love Story,...
Ever since the night he lost his beloved wife eight years before, Henry Blackmore has withdrawn from society, devastated, blaming himself for her death. Late one night, the young Eleanor Grey stumbles across his path, fleeing an unwanted betrothal. H...
"When her husband's recent infidelities are exposed, Kate Hensley does what any sensible woman would; she kicks him out of the house and pursues a younger man. Could her snowboarding instructor, Evan Randall - blue-eyed, blonde, and gorgeous - be the...
"She's the Empress of the Fall... and her empire is falling apart. Lyra, Queen of Rondelmar, has fought enemies without and within, dealt with grief and loss, embraced forbidden magic, found her father and borne a child - and still it isn't enough. Her...
Set in a rural Maori coastal community, the humour and aroha of the community are powerful life preserving factors. But there is conflict in the whanau. Te Rua is battling for custody of his daughter against his two aunts. But why are they disputing ...
"Former rugby star Isaac Ngata was New Zealand's golden boy until five years ago when a tragic accident took the life of his friend and team mate. Now he's a pariah with a screwed up knee and a burden of guilt toward his friend's wife and daughter. Best...
"Will Rhonwyn free her heart and her people, or become the pawn of the most dangerous man ever seen? When her skill at a complex strategy game gives her a way into the palace, Rhonwyn becomes the eyes and ears of the Resistance. She's there to help bring...
"Before the telly died, haggard looking people, politicians mostly, described how an illegally imported rabbit calicivirus had mutated. It wasn't killing rabbits any more, and nor was it affecting cats and dogs, and not the native bat nor the little ...
This third collection of short stories by Alice Tawhai explores the complex mix of beauty and heartache, resilience and joys of people living in seemingly bleak situations. The perceptions of people and their lives are fresh and poignant, seeing the ...
Eamonn Marra's debut novel occupies the precarious spaces in which many twenty-somethings find themselves, forced as they are to live in the present moment as late capitalism presses in from all sides. Mortifying subjects - loserdom, depression, unem...
When January's obsession with a married man begins to jeoperdise her emotional stability, she decides to risk it all and respond to a mysterious card with the words Tell me a secret? Not content with her home life or work place, January takes comfort...
"Katherine Mansfield's first published collectiohn of stories and sketches is very different in tone from her later work. There is a ... boisterous, malicious quality about these impatient tilts at the German way of life in a Bavarian watering-place....
"Recently-widowed Susanna Carmichael is trying to piece her life back together, when she discovers her sister and brother-in-law have been savagely murdered. Acting on impulse, she races to the hospital bedside of her one remaining relative, her...
"Life in the suburbs of Christchurch isn't dangerous enough for Marty. He needs punk, protest, politics and pipes. Soon he finds teen runaway Mona. Underground, the two live for drugs while dealing with a pair of psychopath standover siblings. Meanwhile...
"When a romantically challenged family gather at their Whitsundays resort for their first wedding in decades, Amy 'stuck in the friend zone' Lowery realises that her single tango-dancing mum and besotted groom-to-be dad have hotter love lives than she...
"A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from an exceptional writer. Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit...
Large Print
"Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from...
"It is 1974 and seven-year-old Jack leads a carefree life, playing in his Auckland street. But when a new priest selects him to train as an altar boy, Jack's world is imperiled and he shrinks away from his community, his friends and his mother. Set in...
"Tish Louise, World War Two GI bride. And Meg, Lucie and the mysterious missing Annie. This is the tale of four different women from different corners of the world and in different periods in time who fall in love with a foreigner and follow him home....
"From the darkness emerges a new ruler. Continuing from Snowgirls, Heather has the Irene righted and repaired for their accommodation. She also helps to relocate people, including a girl of her own age. This girl learns that she is the next in line for...
"Mister Pip is a love story, a story about the meaning of names and the power of words. It is about growing up, survival and the search for clues to make sense of life. Thirteen year old Matilda lives with her mother on the Pacific island of Bougainv...
"Special powers are gifted, but there is a Faustian price to pay in this epic novel, packed with laughter, darkness, pain, dreams, superpowers, love and light. What if the greatest gift you ever received came from those you trusted least? What if it ...
This book explores familiar Renee territory. Loosely based on her own father’s suicide during the Depression, it is material that Renee has previously dramatised in her 1985 play, Wednesday To Come. But although the play took a Pakeha perspective, this...
"She thought they'd missed their chance. But he never forgot her. When Tom Carmody buys a run-down cattle station in outback Queensland he is shocked to discover that the woman living next door is none other than Harriet McGuire, his high school crush...
"Tension rises in a hospital clinical coding office when beautiful Keely doesn't turn up for work. Everyone is worried. Or are they? Is Keely seen as a love rival by Emily who likes the handsome Nick and wants him to ask her out? Or is she unpopular because...
"What happens on tour stays on tour was the mantra for the Southern Hemisphere backpackers who swarmed Europe in the 1980s. Foreign countries had to be explored and devoured in every way possible. Waikato-born Judy Williams worked hard for her big OE:...
"Mack Reed has dreams of giving up working as a shearing contractor to buy a high country station. Perhaps it's only a pipedream and how will he ever find that kind of money? When he moves to Glenorchy, a remote rural area in the Southern Alps, his l...
"Introducing the crew of the Harpy: a ragtag group of spacers hauling cargo in the outer rim. Until someone tries to blow them out of the Black. Alcohol, women, and space, that's what keeps Captain Kael Jameson going. Plus the crew he's managed to gather...
Odysseus faces his most perilous quest yet in this gripping tale of gods and mortals. Prince Odysseus and the daemon Bria must penetrate the haunted caverns beneath Dodona, seeking a way to save their doomed nation, Achaea, from the might of Troy. Th...
"Marrying your fae prince shouldn't be this hard. Hetta's family now know Wyn's true identity, but that doesn't mean they approve of their relationship. Princes are all very well - but Wyn's not human, for all he's spent ten years pretending to be. ...
Dan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars of the 20th century in which the nation was engaged. The General and the Nightingale brings together Davin's 20 war stories, some...
"A compelling and poignant search for identity through perfume. Granny Seren told me I had a natural talent for perfume making and I believed her because she seemed to know what she was talking about and she never lied. It was Seren who introduced me...
"When the state steals your words, you still have your voice. When they steal your family, will you have the strength to use it? In the near future, the Librarian algorithm imposes tailored censorship to protect citizens from ideas that could inflict...
"Duncan Blake is a Kiwi filmmaker whose move to LA has not gone to plan. After a series of setbacks, he's working at a chain restaurant, his marriage is on shaky ground after a porn-related faux pas and his son won't stop watching Aladdin. When Duncan...
"If Philippa Gregory and Jackie Collins went out for cocktails and wrote a book, they'd come back with Wife After Wife. A wickedly entertaining and utterly absorbing modern take on the life and marriages of Henry VIII...if he were a twenty-first-cent...
This story, 'All of Us', follows Jenny and Witi and their friends and lovers from Kaikoura, New Zealand to Melbourne, Australia. Bisexual relationships and identities are explored within Jenny and Witi's group of friends. When tragedy strikes, all in...
"Melissa just wanted to die. She had received a life sentence. Any hope of ever tasting freedom, lessened as time and memories started to crush her. "How did I end up here? What did I do to deserve this?" Would she ever have the freedom to enjoy life,...
"One man's continuing battle to save the environment takes a final deadly twist...... An assault by the United States President's private army on his mansion leads Axmann to develop his plans for his final assault on the leaders of the free world. With...
This highly original collection of stories is a rich, eclectic mix of genres and characters. The stories are immediately engaging and accessible but also deftly layered with symbolism, irony, pathos and humour. They are mostly quintessentially New Ze...
A poignant and contentious novel by a rising star of New Zealand literature. Box Saxton just wants to bury his teenage stepson s body in the churchyard near the farm where Box grew up. What happens, though, when the boy s biological father, a Maori l...
A gloriously indulgent romantic comedy set in the little town of Cypress Hollow. Lucy never forgot 'The Kiss'. Or the bad boy she shared it with. Now, 17 years later, he's back - and, dammit, he's still sexy as hell... As owner of The Book Spire in the...
Frozen Summer completes this thrilling trilogy! The Dan Calder series is a trilogy of crime novels featuring the uniquely talented but also uniquely flawed ex-detective. His struggles with depression and a cupboard bursting with skeletons vie for attention...
"Sometimes, there's a high price to pay for doing the right thing. But what is the right thing and is Amy Norman prepared to risk everything to do it? It is obvious to Amy that her new client, Lily, is being abused by her grandson and his partner. Cr...
Buchanan was inspired partly by Lauren Beukes's The Shining Girls to write about Phyllis Symons to challenge the fascination the world has with killers. Their focus never lingers on Phyllis's murder. Instead, From a Shadow Grave, written in second person...
"What happens if your family is the last left alive? The Chatfield family - half living in the UK, the other in New Zealand - found out the stark realities of survival after a deadly pandemic swept across the world. Now escaping the repressive regime...
Here are the best short stories and novel extracts from the Pikihuia Awards for Maori writers 2013 as judged by Sir Mason Durie, Hana O'Regan and Reina Whaitiri. The book contains the stories from the finalists for Best Short Story written in English,...
"In this collection of short stories Albert Wendt continues to explore the nature of love, family and culture through the lives of people caught up in the realities of modern contemporary life and the ancestral ties of their heritage. The stories are...
Charlotte Ashton had never belonged anywhere--until she met worldly Alexandre Dupree. The winemaker was consulting at her family's vineyard and soon shy Charlotte was completely under his spell. He seemed to know all her secret desires, all her dreams--as...
The fabled desert kingdom of Zulheina was Tariq's birthright, and he was a man who held tightly what belonged to him. And that meant he had to reclaim a very special woman--the woman who had broken his heart years before in New Zealand. And once he had...
"Lauren Fraser is easing into a comfortable retirement when her historian friend Ro reveals a shocking secret. Ro's research has uncovered the attempted poisoning of a New Zealand prime minister. Despite herself, Lauren is drawn into the mystery. Who...
"Mischief - Protecting royalty at Fairyland theme park seemed about as far from Afghanistan as Cody could get. But the hot new rollercoaster brings up some unexpected trouble - and not the kind of trouble he knows how to handle alone. Mayhem - Dean l...
"There are three golden rules for new recruits at Fairyland Theme Park: 1. No breaking character, even if you're dying of heat exhaustion 2. Always give guests the most magical time 3. No falling in love. Nate's only been at work one day, and he's al...
"In 2051, America is no more. Risen from the ashes of civil war, the Western Allied States ruthlessly eradicate any threat to the new union. Traitors are executed without trial, their families seized. But a terrifying plague is sweeping through the nation....
"Avery and the White Haven witches have finally found their grimoires and defeated the Favershams, but their troubles are only just beginning. Something escaped from the spirit world when they battled beneath All Souls Church, and now it wants to sta...
"As the secrets of White Haven are uncovered, the witches are in more danger than ever. Avery and the other witches are now being hunted, and they know someone is betraying them. The question is, who? Not only do they have to defend themselves against...
"Granny Seren told me I had a natural talent for perfume making, and I believed her because she seemed to know what she was talking about and she never lied. It was Seren who introduced me to the idea of a signature scent. As a university lecturer, Siân...
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